How to Choose the Right Light for Foyer & Entryway

When guests enter your home, what is their first reaction? In order to get that wow from your visitors (or future home buyers), you'll want to make sure your foyer lighting is up to par. From crystal chandeliers to simple flush mount lights, there are many foyer lighting options available. Read on for advice about choosing the perfect fit for your home!

Chandeliers

Chandeliers add a bold, glamorous look to your entryway, and they come in a variety of styles including elegant crystal chandeliers, colonial candle styles or sleek drums and cage chandeliers. 

Crystal Chandelier

Crystal chandeliers are typically made of dangling crystal prisms, and the glass usually consists of chemical content, for instance, lead crystal. This helps add a multitude of special qualities to the chandelier like softness, clarity, and resonance. Even within crystal chandeliers, you will a number of styles and designs, ranging from contemporary to romantic. 

Cage Chandelier

As the name suggests, these are metal cage chandeliers with lights in the middle. The metal structure in this chandelier replaces the typical central rod that supports the decoration, thus leaving more room and space for lamps, candles or any other similar decoration. Some common and popular styles of cage chandeliers often feature a candle, crystal or shade in the center.

Candle Style Chandelier

This is one of the most popular chandelier styles, and many people like to use it as a foyer entry. This is because it consists of lamps shaped like candles and looks very pretty. Traditional candle chandeliers usually consist of five or more arms, each consisting of a candlestick-shaped lamp or bulb.

Pendants

Pendants work equally well in modern and traditional spaces, and they add radiance to your entryway while still drawing the eye upward to create the illusion of a taller space.

Globe Pendant

Globe pendants are so called because of their apparent round shape, and they are also commonly referred to as spheres, spheres, and spheres. They have a very mid-century look considering how they have evolved since the 1950s and 1960s. Earth pendants are very luminous because the round or spherical shape is usually made of glass and contains a light bulb or lamp placed in the center. These are usually worn alone, but if you want to make a bold and dazzling statement in your entry foyer, you can hang these pendants together. Plus, if you're more of an adventurous experimenter and want to play a little with these beauties, you can set them to different drop lengths, and they look absolutely stunning, to say the least.

Multi-Light Pendants

This pendant style features multiple different lights in the center of a single pendant. The shape of the pendant can vary to your liking, but must contain multiple light fixtures. The key here is balance, as you don't want different lights to clash with each other and create harsh glare. This style can also include different rods or chains emerging from a single central point, with small bulbs or lights hanging from the ends of each string or rod.

Abstract Pendants

This is a great option for hallways and hallways where you want to center your decorative ambient lighting system and bring an artistic touch to the entire space. In fact, lighting designers are always experimenting and trying to offer homeowners unique new ways to decorate their home with beautiful lighting, which is why these abstract pendants were created. They are truly abstract, with no fixed or standard shapes and designs.

Ceiling Fixtures

This lighting style may not be as popular as chandeliers and sconces, but they are truly unique. Recessed installations are defined as lighting fixtures that are installed in the ceiling without any holes or gaps, they are made flush with the ceiling bulbs. They are neither too long nor too short and are considered "just right". They differ from other light fixtures in that they don't specifically hang from the ceiling.

One type of recessed installation is the "semi-recessed", often referred to as the "unsung hero" of low ceiling lighting design. This is because these lighting fixtures have a very compact size, making them ideal for low ceiling spaces and areas. While they're not as grand and fancy, they're great for giving your ceiling canopy that extra "glamor" factor.

Low-profile ceiling lights are also very aesthetic, as the use of only a few inches of suspension in a semi-recessed installation creates a scene-style lighting that may light up or down, depending on the size and shape of the fixture. Common and popular designs include bowls, domes or drums.

Wall Sconces

Wall sconces add a welcoming glow to the entryway without taking up valuable space on consoles or entryway furniture. Use one on either side of the door or entry system. If you have a sconce that leads out of the space, you can also install sconces below the foyer and hallway to draw the eye to the rest of the house. Choose from a variety of styles, shapes and finishes to bring together the look of your entryway. Wall sconces are also available with uplighting, downlighting and multi-directional lighting to cast their light on a variety of surfaces.